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Roger Laboureur

Belgian sports journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3439148
Source-derived summary

Roger Laboureur (13 July 1935 – 14 December 2025) was a Belgian sports journalist.

Life and career

Laboureur was born in Andenne on 13 July 1935. He worked as a sports journalist for RTBF for the duration of his career.

Laboureur died on 14 December 2025, at the age of 90.

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“Roger Laboureur” enters the record as belgian sports journalist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roger, Laboureur and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-07-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roger, Laboureur and Belgian.
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“Roger Laboureur” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Roger, Laboureur and Belgian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3439148. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from Roger Laboureur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.